Roger Cicero

will be going for germany to the Eurovision song contest.

With his song “Frauen regier’n die Welt” (“Women rule the world”), which he sings with the impression of being able to himself rule any woman. :-)

His mix is very uncommon: it’s swing, but with german lyrics, about love and life, flirting and with a well-dosed amount of macho in it, but not serious but always joking and cool.

YouTube has some video clips with his music. Note that I don’t think “Frauen regier’n die Welt” is his best song. Scroll down at least to “Murphys Gesetz” (“Murphys Law”, and congrats for not incorrectly adding an apostrophe, it’s correct this way…) Last.FM has some excerpts from songs I like better.

I don’t know if ‘we’ have any chance with him (last years’ winner was Lordi, some ‘schocker’ hard-rock-heavy-metal band dressing up like halloween monsters), but he won’t come out last for sure. Demographics of the Eurovision contest aren’t too favourable for germany, nor are are European relations.

But being a swing dancer, this is just really cool, because it gives my hobby a wider audience. :-)

P.S. If you want to learn Swing dancing in Munich: the Lindy Hop course at Boogie-Bären starts again this tuesday, and I can also recommend the classes of Swing and the city (thats Cat and Chris); there is a beginners and intermediate workshop next weekend with world champions Markus & Bärbel together with Cat and Chris. And of course every monday there is a teaser class at Cord.

P.P.S. I’d really love to see Roger Cicero perform together with some good Lindy dancers as show act. Probably a different song then, though.